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A Florida man who admitted to tricking his pregnant girlfriend into taking pills known to cause
abortion has been ordered to serve more than 13 years in federal prison and to pay her about
$28,500 in restitution, U.S. prosecutors said.

John Andrew Welden, 29, was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty in September to charges
of tampering with a consumer product resulting in bodily injury and conspiracy to commit mail
fraud.

Welden admitted that he gave the pills to his girlfriend, Remee Jo Lee, in March 2013 to kill
her unborn baby. Lee said he had forged the signature of his father, an obstetrician, on a
prescription and conspired with a pharmacy employee to order Cytotec, which can induce abortions.

Police investigators found text messages between the two showing Lee wanted to keep the baby
but Welden did not.